I cut the bag template from brown paper, and matted some teapot and cup paper onto the front. I stamped one of the stamps from WM's Back in the Saddle set onto some more brown paper and printed my own text underneath to show that you are wanted for a parTEA! (I know, bad pun but it made me laugh!) The little character is a freebie stamp from this months craft stamper (great timing!) stamped onto white and coloured with copics and cut to fit the wanted frame. I used a bit more DP for the tea bag string, and then cut out some cups and cupcakes from the damask decor cartridge on my cricut [sometimes you can find the strangest things hidden on the extra keys on your cartridges ;-)] I added a 2 to the cake to show it was an invitation to parTEA with Claire and the Waltzing Mouse team. Hope you like it.
I also decided to make a 2nd Birthday card to go with the invite and used this weeks sketch on the Waltzing Mouse Sketch Challenge site. I used one of the stamps from WM's holiday labels set and stamped half of it along some white card to make my own custom stamped scalloped border. I cut this out by hand. I used some DP from the DCWV Linnen stack ( I then cut a mat using a nestie in white and matted this onto a teal pearl. To continue the tea party theme I cut the whole damask shape which had the little cup as an extra layer that I used on the tea bag and coloured it in two shades of teal, adding a 2 to the teapot. I used another stamp from the Back in the Saddle set to show it was for a birthday. A little ruffle-folded teal ribbon over the top of the border and a few pearls were all that was needed for a little finishing touch.
Congratulations to Claire on Waltzing Mouse's 2nd Birthday - may there be many, many more birthday celebrations for us all to join in as your sucess grows :-)
See you all later - Craftilicious x
Tara - just love the parTEA baggie!! And the birthday card is just wonderful!!
ReplyDeleteFab tea bag baggie, such a sweet image! Love the teal blue card, one of my fave colours too!
ReplyDeleteThis is such a bright, fun set and your funny pun made laugh. Great to see the Cricut being incorporated too and I loved how you mixed such different stamp sets.
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Carol x
This turned out GREAT. Such wonderful colors and fun ribbon treatment. The way you used your images to create your scalloped border is so very creative. Thanks so much for playing along with the Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge this week.
ReplyDeleteSO cute and creative, love the teddy having tea! Love how you made a sentiment to match the Back in the Saddle ones..."part-tea", hee! What a fun little celebration tea bag baggie to honor Claire and WMS's 2nd birthday!
ReplyDeleteThe partea bag is such a great idea and the image so cute.
ReplyDeleteLove your damask card too. I really like the elegance of these shapes.
p.s. just about to invest in some Waltzingmouse stamps - I've had my eye on them for a while. Sue.x
Fab card, and I love the partea bag, what a cute image! CoB
ReplyDeleteHow cute, and I love the pun! Very creative design on the second card especially!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant!!! Love the play on words - that's true inspiration. Great use of the wanted/reward stamp too. The card is so pretty.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your kind comments on my blog too.
Hugs,
Sharon xx
great card, love the turquoise! thanks for joining us this week at the WMSC! : )
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Thanks for joining us at wmsc
ReplyDeleteOh this is too sweet......great entry!
ReplyDeleteTara, Thank you!! I have your card in my hand as I write and I was very touched that you took time to make it and send it over, thank you so much, i have to say the photo doesn't do it justice, it is gorgeous!!! Thank you!! and thank you for joining our tea party and Good luck in the draw!
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